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Friday, 31 October 2014

Good Morning All, I hope you are all keeping well, Today we have a New Challenge starting for you over at Graph'It Colour Challenge and this fortnight it is Water/Ice.
For my card I have used this gorgeous fairy image from Mo Manning, I have coloured her with my Graph'It markers I have attempted to make her wings the snow balls and the ground look icy, Backing papers are from Dovecraft, Sizzix die cut snowflakes Marianne create die cut tree a the other trees are from a christmas embellishment pack the dove is from Do crafts the ribbon pom pom trim and all the gems are from my stash,

Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Hello All, I am back from my break away on the Isle of Wight before I went My Dear friend Teresa asked me if I wanted to take part in this Creative blog hop, I was ment to post it up last week but then we lost our phone line and Internet so I couldn't get it done and then went away for a break, so here I am now, Sorry Teresa for the delay.do visit Teresa's blog she is a wonderfully talented artist.

What I am Working On Now??
For me this time of year I am crazy making Christmas cards, this is my busy time of year for card orders

I make at least 300 Christmas cards every year and each year it gets harder to come up with new designs and different images to use but I do love making them all.

How Does My Work Differ from others In my Genre??
I love to colour and I am addicted to my fabulous Graph'It Markers with my card making I don't think I am much different to anyone else, I love colours all colours and like to stretch myself,I make myself use pinks and such, I only have one eye, so it takes me a bit longer to make my cards and things I love crafting I really enjoy moudling the salt dough figures and painting them

This is a Salt Dough Witch I made a couple of years ago.

Why Do you Create what you do??
When I had to pack up working due to my ill heath I was very depressed and really didnt know what to do with my self, So My beautiful Wife Heather said why not try some arts and crafts, so that is what I did, I started painting making the salt dough figures and Card making,, I joined Do Craft and got lots of inspiration form the ladies over there, and have just kept going, my dear friend Annette, said I should start blogging so I did and I have never looked back.
Here is one of my water colour painting for you to see.

Sorry about the picture but this painting is hanging on the wall in our living room as Heather loves it so much and it was so bright when I took the picture I got some glare.

How Does My Creative Process Work??
I get inspired by things I see, I love visiting other peoples blogs and seeing there work, I might get inspired by something like a colour or an image, and very often when it comes to painting I will be inspired by a plant or a view, I never copy any one elses work but I love seeing what you all make and take alot of inspiration from all of you guys out there in blog land and I love that we can all make our cards with the same images and papers and embellishments but they will always look so different.

I would like to take this Chance to thank you for visiting my blog and leaving me positive feed back. appreciate everyone of you. I would like to nominate another great Crafter to take part in this Creative blog hop and that is you Tammy.

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate it, I hope it hasn't been to boring for you.

Friday, 24 October 2014

Good Morning All I hope you are all well, I have had a hell of a week, No phone line or internet until yesterday, I couldn't believe the wind could cause such damage, Anyway I am off for the weekend to the Isle of Wight for a 30th Birthday party and I wont be back until Sunday evening.
On to the Challenge reminder, We are doing background effects,over at Graph'It Colour Challenge now for mine I printed my image twice,and cut one out to us as a mask. I coloured the background first using two colours I the masked the image and sprayed some mix it fluid, and used my blender pen to create a snow effect and I added some silver glitter pen, I then coloured my image and added a little frantage to bring a bit of snow to the front of the image,
Backing papers are from Bo Bunny, Marianne creatable die cut large snowflake, ribbon and poinsettia are from stash.

Monday, 20 October 2014

Good Morning All, I hope you all had a great weekend, Today we have a New Challenge for you over at My Besties UK and this time it is Anything goes or use pencils, I have done the Anything goes as I don't use pencils, so my gorgeous image from Sherri Baldy is coloured with my Graph'it markers, Xcut round die cuts, backing papers from Forever friends, Crafts too die cut corners, the wee pram, the rattle, ribbon and gems are all from my stash,

Saturday, 18 October 2014

Good Morning All, I hope you are having a great weekend, today we have a new challenge for you at We Do Doobadoo and this fortnight its Halloween.For my card I have used one of the Dutch Doobadoo Shape art templates to make the card shape and layers, the image is from Polkadoodles I have coloured her with my Graph'It markersm backing papers are from Dovecraft & Joycraft, Hanging spider and spider web die cuts are from Memory box, I heat embossed the Dutch Doobadoo stars and a wooden bat that is from my stash. Dutch Doobadoo products used,

Saturday, 11 October 2014

Good Morning All, I hope you are all well, Today we have a New challenge for you starting at Gem of a Challenge and this time we want you to create a scene, now that doesn't mean we want you to come over and shout at us lol, we want to see a scene on your card, for my card I have used one of the fantastic decoupage sets that Janet has created, you can find them HERE you get 3 sheets so I have cut of the decoupage and created this scene.

Monday, 6 October 2014

Good Morning All. I hope you had a great weekend.Today we have a New challenge starting over at My Besties UK this Fortnight its Anything goes or use Buttons.
For my card I have used this gorgeous Bestie image from Sherri Baldy I have coloured her with my Graph'It markers, Spellbinder rectangle die cut frame,Sizzix die cut corners Memory box die cut bunting, the backing paper was a freebie from a mag, buttons and sentiments are from my stash.

Saturday, 4 October 2014

Good Morning All, I hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Today we have a New Challenge starting over at We Do Doobadoo and this fortnight our theme is Christmas. I have made a Christmas Teapot card.
I love this teapot template, all of the Dutch Doobadoo Templates are so easy to use, the backing paper is from Docrafts, cuttlebug snowflake embossed silver mirror card, Marianne creatable die cut Christmas tree, Memory box die cut snowflakes stars from Dutch Doobadoo, ribbon, bauble & candy cane are all from stash.

Friday, 3 October 2014

Good Morning All, I can't believe its Friday again already, the time is just flying by. Today we have a New challenge starting for you over at Graph'It colour challenge and this fortnight it is Autumn colours .for my card I have used this gorgeous image from Sherri Baldy, of course she is coloured with my Graph'It markers .backing papers from first addition corrugated card all the flowers and twines are all from my stash.

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About Me

My name is Kevin, ive been card making for about 6 years now, I started card making when i had to pack up work due to ill health, my wife got me started and ive never looked back, being blind in one eye has not stopped me, it just takes me a bit longer to produce my finished cards.